CVE-2025-1194

MEDIUM

Huggingface Transformers < 4.50.0 - Denial of Service

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability was identified in the huggingface/transformers library, specifically in the file `tokenization_gpt_neox_japanese.py` of the GPT-NeoX-Japanese model. The vulnerability occurs in the SubWordJapaneseTokenizer class, where regular expressions process specially crafted inputs. The issue stems from a regex exhibiting exponential complexity under certain conditions, leading to excessive backtracking. This can result in high CPU usage and potential application downtime, effectively creating a Denial of Service (DoS) scenario. The affected version is v4.48.1 (latest).

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0008
EPSS Percentile 23.0%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-1333
Status published
Products (2)
huggingface/transformers < 4.50.0
pypi/transformers 0 - 4.50.0PyPI
Published Apr 29, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026